Vexation Sentence Examples

He is in such bad health, and now this vexation about his son is enough to kill him!

But he looked at me with vexation and jumped up, breaking off his remarks.

He burst into tears, not of grief, but of vexation at not having held out for better terms.

Tears of vexation showed themselves in Princess Mary's eyes.

She never cried from pain or vexation, but always from sorrow or pity, and when she wept her radiant eyes acquired an irresistible charm.

And the feeling of energy with which the troops had started began to turn into vexation and anger at the stupid arrangements and at the Germans.

When in 1706 the Austrian party appeared likely to gain the upper hand, Portocarrero was led by spite and vexation to go over to them.

The marriage was disclosed at Michaelmas, much to the vexation of Warwick, who in pursuit of his foreign policy had projected a match with a French princess.

Often, speaking with vexation of some failure or irregularity, he would say: "What can one do with our Russian peasants?" and imagined that he could not bear them.

"You'll never get well like that," she would say, forgetting her grief in her vexation, "if you won't obey the doctor and take your medicine at the right time!

And evidently suppressing his vexation with difficulty, he turned away from the boy.

And she ran out of the room, with difficulty refraining from tears of vexation and irritation rather than of sorrow.

Coldly, without looking at her son, she sent for her husband and, when he came, tried briefly and coldly to inform him of the facts, in her son's presence, but unable to restrain herself she burst into tears of vexation and left the room.

"Oh well... it can't be helped!" said he in a tone of vexation and placed his hand on the gate as if to leave.

But repressed vexation at his son's poor-spirited behavior found expression in his treatment of his daughter.

I can't bear these ladies and all these civilities! said he aloud in Sonya's presence, evidently unable to repress his vexation, after the princess' carriage had disappeared.